This dessert would make a great treat this Valentine’s Day for the peanut butter lover in your life! One of my husband’s favourite desserts that I used to make is Peanut Butter Silk Pie. Throughout the years it often made its appearance on his birthday or Valentine’s Day. When we began a low carb lifestyle, it wasn’t too difficult to adapt the recipe with sugar substitutes. I find my square glass pan to be the most convenient, but you could easily prepare this recipe in a round pie pan instead.

Slowly but surely our society is adapting to the larger size of today’s “average” woman. Plus-size clothing is becoming increasingly available, even trendy (it’s about time!). Plus-size models are becoming celebrities in their own right and inspiring “everyday” plus-size women to celebrate and display their own beauty on social media. This burgeoning culture of “beauty beyond size” is freeing women to accept themselves as they are, heal their relationships with their bodies, and hopefully recognize that it is meant for so much more than just being attractive.

Keto pizza that you can actually pick up and eat with your hands – what?! I first encountered this genius method of making Fathead Pizza on the 2 Keto Dudes Podcast – you can check out Carl Franklin’s original recipe here.

Lately I’ve been thinking a lot about my “why.” Why am I doing this blog? What do I have to add to the endless information out there regarding health and wellness? Is it truly worth the time and effort it requires?

Each New Year’s Day we make a fresh batch of resolutions (or the same ones from the year prior) and come the following New Year’s Eve—very few of us have actually achieved them. Gym regulars joke about the influx of people plodding away on treadmills in January, because they know they’ll all be gone by mid-February. It’s a depressing cycle, so common that it has become cliche. We are relying on our willpower to change, but unfortunately, it is a limited resource.

Just in time for that Christmas party! It’s always nice to have a dessert option you can partake in and your gluten-free friends will hug you! These are soft gingerbread cookies with a nice “sugary” crust and that warm and spicy holiday flavor. They are also great to crumble and mix with melted butter for a delicious cheesecake crust.

Imagine we are getting together for coffee and you just said, “wow, you’re looking great – what are you doing?!” And I say, “It’s this thing called the keto diet – sounds weird, I know – but hear me out…”

Today we have an over-abundance of information regarding health and wellness. There is so much information out there, often conflicting, that we can feel frozen with indecision. Unfortunately, in a sea of expert opinions and one-size-fits-all food pyramids, finding what truly works for your body can take a little detective work.

Angela

Every morning when Angela wakes up she makes her green power smoothie with each ingredient carefully weighed and measured and studiously entered into her calorie tracker. She grabs the lunch bag she packed the night before with portioned-out healthy snacks and a lunch that she carefully planned to fit perfectly into her macros. At work she walks zealously past the donuts in the break room and gives her co-workers standing around them a look that says “shame on you” as she proudly places her lunch bag in the fridge. Throughout the day the food she packed leaves her hungry and wanting something more but she diligently fills up her water bottle and pushes her appetite aside.